(November 05, 2021)   -    Dan Kraus, WCS Canada’s new Director of National Conservation, gives us some FAQs about bison and their conservation, just in time for #NationalBisonDay.

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(October 28, 2021)   -   Intact and fully functioning ecosystems can be remarkably unstable and apparently inefficient, but snowy owls have evolved to cope with the ups and downs.

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(October 15, 2021)   -   WCS Canada scientist Claire Farrell gives an update on working with Moose Cree Youth on #WorldRiversDay.

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(October 09, 2021)   -   The loss of wildlife connectivity is the result of fragmentation by a thousand cuts. Dan Kraus, our Director of National Conservation explains the need to restore connectivity and create a robust network of nature corridors in Canada.

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(August 26, 2021)   -   Special guest blogger namew, a.k.a. the living fossil/ the dinosaur fish, writes about her experience being born and raised in the North French river. 

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(December 28, 2020)   -   Bats' ability to echolocate is an incredible innovation. It's also one that can help us protect them.

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(September 21, 2020)   -   Don Reid and Maria Leung have been following the nesting success of barn swallows - a threatened species - at farms in Yukon each year. For the past two years, they've observed evidence that some birds are successfully raising two sets of fledglings in a single summer! This is the first well-documented evidence of double brooding by a migratory bird in Yukon.

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(August 24, 2020)   -   Usually, at this time of year, many of our scientists would be deep into their field seasons. But current circumstances have required both adopting some creative solutions and simply accepting that some field work is not going to happen this summer. We decided to check in with a few of our scientists to get a glimpse into their new normal and how they are adapting to current (and ever changing) conditions.

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(April 21, 2020)   -   The recent increase in wildlife sightings in our cities and waterways during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a ray of light, but is a far cry from wildlife recovery. These signs of resurgence will be temporary, unless we can take this opportunity to change our approach to the natural world.

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(April 14, 2020) By Claire FarrellYouth voices around the world are calling loudly for action on climate change and biodiversity loss, including voices from Indigenous youth such as Autumn Peltier and international voices like Greta Thunberg.  But this urgency really became tangible for me as I travelled north to Moose Factory on the edge of James Bay over winter roads that were quickly becoming impassable. Conditions on winter roads (ice roads) connecting far north communities are particularly poor this y...

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